ENG 101 “The yellow wall paper”

Prof. Alexander

“Personally, I disagree with their ideas.“Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good.But what is one to do?I did write for a while in spite of them; but it does exhaust me a good deal – having to be so sly about it, or else meet with heavy opposition. I sometimes fancy that in my condition if I had less opposition and more society and stimulus – but John says the very worst thing I can do is to think about my condition, and I confess it always make me feel bad.

So I will let it alone and talk about the house”

In this passage from “the yellow wall paper “ by Charlotte Perkins, the readers have the opportunity to see the main character’s opinion about her husband and other relatives. She explains that she disagrees with her husband’s ideas about her treatment, that not being able to work is not helping her in any way.  In this case she is a writer. She asked herself the question “ but what is one to do?” in other words; she is trying to come up with ways to be allow to write but because she has been forbidden to it by her husband who is her primary care doctor she begins to have hallucinations to the point of having some sort of a mental disorder.

However the writer does agreed that writing in secret is not doing her any favors but she seem desperate. This is an important moment in the story because not being able to do what she likes the most is making her feel sad and because of that she starts writing about the house. To relieve her mind! It could be said that most of her problems come from the fact that she is not happy with her marriage and the way things are going on the house. She seems to suffer from the fact that the person that is supposed to care about her belittles both her illness and her thoughts and concerns in general. Plus her husband prescribes a treatment that includes almost doing no work at all. She needs to keep her mind occupied and that is why she begins to write about the “yellow wall paper” which she seems very disturbed by it.